by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 12, 2014 | My Diary
This bad boy was delivered yesterday…. Our lintel, woohoo. It had to be moved from the front of the house, round to the back where it is now. Did he have any hefty fellas for that? No! Muggins here was told to ‘get on the end of that’. Do your DIY chaps do that to...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 10, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Tried a variation of the Chickpea, Mango and Coconut Curry today. Made the sauce as usual, then added some green beans from the freezer. And then instead of rice, nan, or anything else like that, I stirred it through pasta. And popped some little bits of feta on top....
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 9, 2014 | My Diary
I have had a look around google for information about fracking and found lots of stuff. But I have found it is very difficult to form an objective opinion. Much of what is written is either extremely anti or very pro, where what I was looking for were some facts so I...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 7, 2014 | My Diary
Well gentle reader, I am feeling somewhat discombobulated right now. I have just got back from a meeting in Heathfield about fracking in East Sussex. I went because I didn’t know a huge amount about it and wanted to know more. The Government are very keen on it...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 6, 2014 | My Diary
I had an interesting and rather nice day yesterday. First of all, I went up the road to Burwash. On our local Freecycle group, a chap had offered an old Nokia, the type that makes telephone calls and pretty much that’s it. Just the type of phone that my Mum wanted. So...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 5, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
We had an oldie but goodie for tea this evening. Thai green curry. I used a mix of carrots, a red and green pepper, Savoy cabbage, tomatoes and an onion. The protein part was paneer, and we had it with brown basmati. I tried costing it, but it came out to 98p, and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 3, 2014 | My Diary
I tried to reblog Jen Gales post today about elderflowers, but it wouldn’t go. So here is the link. Lots of lovely ideas to use them, and in season right now. Once you have located your elder flowers, go back again in the autumn when the remaining flowers have...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 1, 2014 | My Diary
Jen Gale over on MakeDoAndMend posted this intriguing list today on taking stock. So I thought I would join in and add my two pennorth. This is what I am currently doing, using Jens Taking Stock list Making : wedding invitations for DD2, a Year Book for a special WI...
